Iomega USB 3.0 PCI Express Card Adapter- 34948
- Fast ? Get up to 10 times the speed of USB 2.0 ; transfer speeds up to 5 Gbits/s with this card
- Easy ? Quick and easy setup
Iomega offers USB 3.0 adapter cards to insert in your desktop computer so you can experience native USB 3.0 transfer speeds up to 5 Gbits/s This card is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0 devices. Connections to USB 2.0 devices will lead to USB 2.0 performance.
Cheapest Price: $ 33.00
Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d 4TB (4 x 1TB) Network Storage Cloud Edition – 35436
- RAID Support: RAID 5 and RAID 10 – all with automatic RAID rebuild. JBOD mode also available.
- Iomega Personal Cloud: Easily share content with friends and family outside of your home using the Iomega Personal Cloud feature.
- Ease of use: Simple three step setup – Simply plug into your router, power on, and install the software CD
- Remote Access: Connect securely from anywhere in the world and get full access to pictures, videos, files
- Device-to-Device Data Replication: One-touch copying via the QuikTransfer button.
- Connect securely from anywhere in the world and get full administration of the StorCenter ix2-200 through a personalized web address.
- Easily copy files to and from attached USB drives or any network share – including Iomega Personal Cloud locations
- Invited guests will have access to read and write to files and folders on your network drive.
The Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d Network Storage, Cloud Edition offers content sharing with advanced security, and is ideal for small and remote offices, workgroups or home networks. Based on enterprise-class EMC storage technology, the StorCenter ix4-200d provides easy file sharing, iSCSI block access, dual GbE connections and multiple RAID configurations. The Iomega Personal Cloud offers unparalleled simplicity and versatility for data sharing and protection. Business users will appreciate the r
Cheapest Price: $ 614.53
January 26th, 2012 at 11:07 am
Short and sweet .. USB 3.0 adaptor,
I wanted a 3.0 USB card for a pc I have, to back up my pc in less time.
The back ups I was doing took 3 hours each time. With this adaptor, that time has dropped to less than 1/2 hour.
This one was cheap, it arrived very quickly, and does the job.
You can’t ask for more than that.
One word of caution: make sure the card you buy will fit your computer(I learned the hard way!)
I recommend this vendor.
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|January 26th, 2012 at 11:52 am
Works great,
I bought this to go along with an external HDD. No problems installing and the smaller card size helped with the limited room I have in the PC. It does what its supposed to and at a good price.
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|January 26th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Almost worthless,
I got this to go along with an external drive with USB 3.0. When I first installed it seemed to work just fine. Then after a while it had a hard time recognizing the drive. Then 90% of the time it never worked. Now It doesn’t work at all and Windows is saying that there are no drivers for the USB device. I went to the Iomega website… Complete Garbage! Confusing hard to find. And when I finally found the product, it was only to buy. No drivers. Nothing. I’m angry.
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|January 26th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
A very full featured NAS solution,
First of all, note that this is not your run of the mill network attached hard drive. This is a small business grade Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. As a result, its configuration options can be overwhelming at first glance, but it is undoubtedly an extremely rewarding device to get to know.
First the awesome:
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1. Lots of RAID options:
# JBOD (Just a Bunch/Box of Disks) – i.e., the entire array is treated as a set of 4 independent disks. The bad thing – if a drive crashes you lose the data on that disk. The good – you get your full 4TB of storage. This shows up as the option “None”.
# RAID 0 – Data Striping : i.e., some bytes of your data go to one disk and other bytes to another. This writing occurs in parallel, so it is faster than JBOD, and you get your full 4TB – but still no data recovery. This shows up as the option “None (RAID 0)”.
# RAID 1 – Mirror/Stripe: i.e., the same data is written to two sets of disks – and striping is used to increase speed. The bad thing – you get half your storage capacity (2 TB). The good – you have full live data redundancy. This shows up as the option “RAID 10″
# RAID 5 – This is the best option with the IX4. One drive’s worth of data is reserved for parity data. The good – even if one of your disks crashes, the IX4 can rebuild your data without loss. The bad – one drive’s worth of space is lost, so you get only 3 TB of storage. This shows up as “RAID 5″.
I left my IX4 at RAID 5, and also decided to disable writing to the cache. This makes writes slower, but does ensure that even on a power failure, all data has been written to the disk.
2. Security is top notch.
There are options to enable HTTPS-based security. You can also create authentication/authorization rules using users as well as groups, and you can specify access to shares for these users/groups. Do note that the certificate presented by the IX4 is signed by itself. What this means is that you will be presented with a scary warning about an invalid certificate.
3. Remote Access and the Personal Cloud
Enabling remote access to this drive is simplicity itself. The device itself can do much of the heavy lifting of configuring port forwarding on your router. The nice thing is that it uses port 443 (the well known https port) so you can access your drive easily from any location – incl. through corporate firewalls. It also comes with 12 months of basic access at TZO DNS, which lets you avoid having to memorize your IP address.
While the concept is rather intriguing, I have not enabled my personal cloud yet – for the simple reason that I don’t really need others to access my NAS. The remote access for myself (and family) is more than sufficient for my needs.
With remote access enabled, it even works great as a personal version of the popular Dropbox file hosting service.
4. Automatic backups – actually more like synchronization
There are a few options here, including synchronization with Mozy and Amazon S3. Unfortunately, I use neither. (I prefer iDrive by far.)
Instead, I rely on the ix4′s simple XCOPY-like “Copy Jobs” backup solution. This feature automatically copies files from any external drive/share folder to another location, on a configurable schedule. This is not true backup – so there are no full/incremental/differential backup options. It functions more like Microsoft’s SyncToy, on a scheduled basis.
5. QuikTransfer is simply awesome. If you are like me you have a number of disks of varying capacity strewn around your network. With QuikTransfer, you connect one of those hard drives to one of its three USB ports using an USB cable, and you can immediately transfer content on to the IX4 – with no computer necessary! (This feature leverages the “Copy Jobs” function described above.
6. Works as a media server.
7. Active shares are a crazy good idea. Can you imagine dropping photos into a folder and having them automatically uploaded to Flickr or Facebook? How about dropping videos into a folder for automatic uploads to YouTube? Or even automatically kicking off a Torrent download, just by copying a .torrent file to a share? Well – the IX4 does just this using its active folders idea.
8. Firmware update was as painless as it can get. I downloaded the file from the Iomega site, uploaded it to the IX4, and then applied the update. After a long while digesting the update, the device was back up and running – all shiny and new.
9. Supports a zillion protocols. Incl. FTP, rsync, WebDAV, Bluetooth (with optional adapter), etc. I haven’t enabled these – except for trying out FTP, which worked great with my FTP client (FileZilla).
10. The LCD on the front of the window is a nice touch. It shows useful information such…
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|January 26th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Awesome support,
I had difficulty setting up–this may not be the fault of the product–it is most likely user error. I called the support number–and happily found a great person who spoke English well on the other end. I felt like I was talking to apple support–it was awesome. He walked me through everything he could. Unfortunately, he is not trained on apple computers so although this is apple compatible, there was a lot he couldn’t tell me how to do–which will necessitate a call to apple. He was able to at least get me up and running getting time machine backups, showing me how to get documents onto the drive. He could not help me set it up so that i could access it from another computer because i have an apple modem and some settings on that need changed. He also couldn’t tell me how to put a copy of my pictures or itunes on the drive–again directing me to apple support.–but i will be able to get that support from apple I am sure. If I had a pc, he would have been able to help me with all of this himself.
The drive is a 4TB drive–however, only a little less than 3 TB are available for use. The support guy said it was because they use one of the drives as a back up to the other in case of drive failure–which is good as long as you know you are only going to have 3 TB available to use. This is fine with me as i don’t need more than that.
in the next month or two, he told me that there will be a program called ilink for the ipad and iphone so that you can access the documents from those devices very easily.
The warranty is for 3 years and they provide phone support the entire 3 Years!!!!! I like that–I am not a computer geek, or even all that smart with computers, so to have someone be willing to walk me through things is essential. If you buy a device but can’t use it, it doesn’t matter how good the device is.
I’m giving this a review of 4 starts right now. I will update after I have used it some.
1. It runs cool. I’ve had it on 24/7, it is connected by ethernet to my router. But it is never hot to the touch.
2. It is attractive (i know, it sounds silly–but i really like for things to be simple and tidy looking
3. It has been a great machine for my time machine back ups as well as storing documents
4. 10 stars for costumer support
5. The promise of ipad and iphone apps that work with simplicity (if they were out right now and i could test them, it could be 5 stars–but they aren’t)
Things i would like to see it do but it doesn’t–i would love it to have backup software that automatically backs up and updates files/folders, etc, that i have on my computer. Time machine in apple does this some–but it doesn’t duplicate a working environment and it isn’t very easy to get to something you need–it works as a back up if you need to restore something–but i would like to have duplication. Apparently this might be available with software (by another company–presumably at a cost) (the guy said it was with a PC but wasn’t sure if it was on MAC).
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|January 26th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Hard drives aren’t stable,
We’ve had this unit for about 2 months at our office and the drives have somehow unseated themselves 3 times. Each time they unseat, I have to shut off the unit and turn it back on. Then the NAS takes 3 days to rebuild all the data because of all the data on the NAS. It’s ridiculous how bad this thing is. The good thing is, the data is not lost and the data is rebuilt fine. But the stability of the hardware is a bit of a joke. I did contact customer support and they sent me another drive in exchange, but it’s not the drive. 2 different drives on the unit unseated so it appears to be a connection issue to the motherboard itself.
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